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NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt

Posted by timothy on from the not-actually-a-complete-stop-mind-you dept.

stevegee58 writes "After 25 years on the air, Tom and Ray Magliozzi (aka Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers) are calling it quits in September. With their nerdy humor, explosive laughter and geek cred (both MIT alums) Tom and Ray will be sorely missed by the average NPR-listening Slashdotter." How many garages have names as cool as "Hacker's Haven"? I've long thought that someone should assemble a compilation featuring nothing but hours of their laughter. (Which will be available for sampling, since they will continue to play archived material for a long time yet.)

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  1. Shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nooooooo! These guys were brilliant!

  2. Sad day by Igorod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sad day indeed.

  3. Re:All the anti-NPR vitriol this story incites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we stop using "mouth breathers" as a euphemism for low intelligence? There are plenty of people that actually do breathe through their mouth due to problems with their noses, but are otherwise quite intelligent.

    Thanks,
    An intelligent mouth breather

  4. Re:All the anti-NPR vitriol this story incites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amen brother!

    And NPR is probably the closest thing to unbiased reporting we'll ever get in this country. The have stories that I never see anywhere else in US based media. And I don't know why it called "Liberal". On any hot topic, they make an effort to get both sides - and they don't have crackpots representing the other side either. When they cover an issue, by the time the segment is over, I very rarely have a definite opinion either way because when they've finished, I can understand both sides and either sides reasoning. They constantly have Conservatives on stating their views, opinions and their side. And on many occasions on some issues, I have taken the Conservative's side because of NPR's reporting; which I can't say that about any other US based news outlet.

    NPR - "Liberal" indeed.